At a Republican conference in Orlando a few weeks ago, presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson was asked by a reporter what he thought of the case involving the late Terri Schiavo. For those who don’t recall, Schiavo suffered cardiac arrest in 1990 in her St. Petersburg home. Her brain was damaged by a lack of oxygen, and she went into a vegetative state. Her husband said Schiavo would not have wanted to be kept alive if she had no chance of recovery, while her parents said she would not have wanted her feeding tube removed. The case drew national attention, and Pinellas County was the nation’s hot news spot. The pope, Congress, the president, the governor of Florida and the...
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